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BIBLIOMANIA. Frontispieceana, or a Collection of Engraved Frontispieces, Title-pages, &c &c &c Extracted from Various Works Auntient and Modern. Common and Uncommon and now faithfully digested into one. Tomblands, Ipswich: 1816 [but contents 16th to early 19th century]. Large 4to (321 x 242mm.) Manuscript title-page and dedication, 12pp. of manuscript introductory text, illustrated with approximately 325 title-pages, frontispieces, head and tail pieces, printer's devices, illustrations and decorative initials from various works on 201 leaves. Contemporary half-calf (worn, covers detached). Note: the volume includes an early woodcut of a witch flying on a broomstick on p.42, two folding posters advertising R. Ackermann publications with hand-coloured illustrations on p.178 and p.190, three early illuminated decorative initials on p.191 and another on p.195. Provenance: The West Horsley Place Collection.